Subject: Berkeley

• Master of Puppets

  March 11, 2009

• Canadian Lesbian Twins Tegan & Sara at Zellerbach Hall 12/6

  November 20, 2007

• Berkeley Tree-Sitters: It's Been A Year Already?

  December 11, 2007

• Berkeley's Marine Corp Hatred Not as Cheap as It Used to Be

  February 15, 2008

• Local NAACP Head Accuses Berkeley Cops of Wanting to "Kill Every African-American That They Can."

  February 27, 2008

• State Senate Has a Bone to Pick With UC Berkeley

  February 28, 2008

• Berkeley vs. Animal Rights Protesters: You're a Terrorist. No, YOU'RE a Terrorist.

  March 6, 2008

• Soon All of Bay Area Will Look Like Second Life

  March 20, 2008

• 2008 High School Battle of the Bands Semi-Finalists Announced

  May 8, 2008

• Laaz Rockit to Release First New Studio Album in 15 Years

  June 6, 2008

• MP3 of the Day: Roche

  July 1, 2008

• Of Election Nights and Comfort Food

  November 6, 2008

• Culture Critic Jeff Chang Awarded 50 Grand

  Jeff Chang is more than your average music scholar. Tip of the iceberg details? The Berkeley author helped start the SoleSides label -- which became Quannum Projects; penned a number of books on hip-hop culture; interviewed Barack Obama for the cover of Vibe,; and has gotten his byline in New York Times, Foreign Policy, The Nation, Huffington Post and Mother Jones, among other publications. Add to that list a new honor: Chang was awarded a $50,000 USA Fellowship grant for artistic excellenc

  November 13, 2008

• Stella Visits Bay Area in Dec.

  Fans of The State, Wet Hot American Summer, and the short-lived Comedy Central series should be happy to note that Stella is bringing their absurdist, dildo-infested comedy stylings on tour this winter. The trio consisting of David Wain, Michael Showalter, and Michael Ian Black is slated to exhibit ridiculously awesome hilarity at Berkeley's Wheeler Theatre on Dec. 12. Tickets are available now. Until then, revisit all their classic shorts at collegehumor.com. --Oscar Pascual

  November 24, 2008

• Friday Sundae: Ici's Affogato

  Amongst all the temptations of Ici (2948 College Avenue in Berkeley) is the delicious affogato di gelato ($5.75), an Italian sundae of vanilla bean ice cream crowned with freshly brewed warm espresso and chewy candied orange peel. The sundae pictured above is the to-go version, but if you savor it there it comes served in a coffee cup. Be careful if you're as caffeine-sensitive as this writer, however, because the espresso delivers the expected punch, especially if you adopt the same method of s

  December 26, 2008

• Tivo Alert Staycation: Dine with Rachael Ray Around the Bay

  As we mentioned some time ago, Rachael Ray spent some time in the Bay Area putting together a show for her latest series, Rachael's Vacation, which aired last week and will run again February 6 at 11 p.m., February 7 at 2:30 a.m., and February 15 at 2:30 p.m. on the Food Network. But for those of you who'd like to read it and weep -- or just follow in her tiny footsteps -- we'll share her rather interesting itinerary with you.The show's regular intro is sheer Bizarro World comedy: "Have I got a

  January 20, 2009

• Serious Bread: Vital Vittles Sourdough Rye

  Fresh-ground flour gives this bread extra flavor.

  February 19, 2009

• Tomorrow: San Francisco International Chocolate Salon

  (Chocolate Mayan calendar by the Xocolate Bar in Berkeley) The San Francisco International Chocolate Salon takes place tomorrow, March 21, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Herbst Pavilion (99 Marina Blvd.). In its third year, the celebration of cacao hosted by online/on-demand Bay Area food channel TasteTV has graduated from Fort Mason's relatively small conference room to its considerably larger and more grand hall, which will host more than 50 chocolatiers (many of them local) and should be a posit

  March 20, 2009

• Humphry Slocombe's Foie-Gras Ice Cream Sandwich

  I can't say I was able to detect any foie--which might be just as well.

  February 24, 2009

• Michael Bauer Watch: Why So Few Steakhouses?

  The Catholics have a name for it: "gluttony of delicacy."

  March 25, 2009

• City of Burgers, Berkeley Edition: Flame

  Flame Gourmet Burgers 2985 College (at Ashby), Berkeley; 510-666-8500. The East Bay has many contenders to burger immortality: Barney's, Café Rouge, Christopher's, Wood Tavern. But comparisons are tricky, since each operates in burger genres whose differences range from slight to whopping. There's gourmet, fast-food, and the most popular, a kind of hybrid. Elmwood District burger joint Flame has gourmet aspirations, but a recent visit revealed it to be squarely in the hybrid camp: Whatever poi

  June 1, 2009

• Andrew Sean Greer

  December 3, 2008

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  November 19, 2008

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  November 12, 2008

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  June 18, 2008

• Flight of the Monkeys

  May 14, 2008

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  April 2, 2008

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  February 6, 2008

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  January 30, 2008

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  December 12, 2007

• Art Rolls By

  September 26, 2007

• The Mother Garden

  By Robin Romm (Simon & Schuster, $22)

  July 18, 2007

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  November 22, 2006

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  November 15, 2006

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  November 8, 2006

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  November 1, 2006

• Literary Events

  September 27, 2006

• Lips Like Sugar

  Honeycut sweetens soul-pop

  September 13, 2006

• Literary Events

  August 30, 2006

• Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

  June 28, 2006

• Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

  April 26, 2006

• Our guide to readings, spoken word, and other literary events

  March 29, 2006

• Hip-Hop in the Park Keeps the Culture Alive

  EKAphotography"Why you trippin? I built your new casa!!" Hip-hop, in Berkeley? Yes yes y'all. Even the threat of rain couldn't stop the 13th Annual Hip-Hop in the Park Festival from going down this past Saturday at People's Park. A core audience mainly culled from all the beats-and-rhymes heads at UC Berkeley posted up all afternoon to watch what was an amazing lineup for a free show with no corporate sponsorship. Bayonics, Bayliens, J-Boogie, Blu & Exile, and Bambu all rocked it--maybe nex

  May 4, 2009

• Chocolate and Chalk: Together at Last

  In a few weeks, they'll be eating chalk and drawing with chocolate in the Gourmet Ghetto. Wait! Scratch that, reverse it, as Willy Wonka would say. The annual Chocolate & Chalk Art Festival in Berkeley combines a sidewalk chalk-drawing contest with a wild tasting menu created by area establishments and themed around chocolate. Think chocolate chicken tikka masala, Caribbean black bean chocolate soup, and chocolate pizza, in addition to staples like truffles and ice cream. The chalky

  May 13, 2009

• Doggy Bag: The Day's Odds and Ends

  Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Local hero: Last week, Bill Fujimoto stepped down as manager of Monterey Market, the watershed Berkeley produce biz that supplied deliciousness to Chez Panisse, Quince, and Zuni Café, among others. His departure came after a family disagreement about the direction of the nearly 50-year-old institution. Ex-Chron staffer Carol Ness penned a passionate farewell, viewable at the Ethicurean. A taste: For decades, Bill has cheerfully supported loc

  June 9, 2009

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  November 14, 2007

• UC Theater to Become Live Music Venue?

  The UC Theater in 1917​ Berkeley's venerable UC Theater may be reopening for business, not as a movie house, but as an entertainment venue. According to Leah Matanky of Slim's/the Great American Music Hall, her company has a proposal to renovate the storied building into a "lovely, world class live music venue and eatery" with a capacity of 1400, similar to the Fillmore in San Francisco. As a former Berkeley resident, someone who grew up there, this could be the best thing to happen to the

  August 11, 2009

• Freight & Salvage Announces New Digs, Open House

  Ramblin' Man: Ramblin' Jack Elliot​ Before there was freak-folk and alt.country, there was Freight & Salvage. The venerable Berkeley folk music venue and coffeeshop has been around since the days when bluegrass was just "grass," and jug bands were the order of the day--41 years, to be exact. On August 27, as the Chron recently noted, the long-awaited Grand Opening of the Freight's new downtown Berkeley venue at 2020 Addison happens, commencing a week of celebrations and musical performan

  August 18, 2009

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  October 24, 2007

• Bay Links: Transportation, Movie Houses, & Dramatic Reenactments

  Look out, Berkeley. Here comes John Walsh.​America's Most Wanted comes to Berkeley, reenacts horrific crime. [Crime Scene]Own a fabled piece of cinematic history. [Curbed]"This can't be happening, not to me." The Four Stages of Muni Passenger Grief. [SF Citizen]Will cars take a back seat to bikes and pedestrians in San Jose? [Streetsblog]A grammatical critique of the most recent Weekly cover. [Sexpigeon]Do S.F. cyclists heed stop signs? Video evidence suggests not so much. [NYT Bay Area]

  November 9, 2009